we'll see. good night, america. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute ---www.ncicap.org---^ bret: next on "special report" is the public option officially dead? we have the answer as the president prepares to address a joint session of congress again. many say it is the town hall meetings that forced democrats to reconfigure their healthcare reform pitch. tonight, a rare bipartisan town hall in one state. is healthcare affecting the safety of your next flight? and brittish officials play the blame game over the release of the lockerbie bomber. all that plus the fox all-stars, right here, right now.

welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. president obama is set to retool his healthcare reform plans, that from senior white house officials faced with nearly united opposition from the right and fire from the left for not advocating more strongly for a government-run insurance option. senior aides say the president will reframe his message with another address to congress. senior white house correspondent major garrett explains. >> president obama fled washington for a long weekend with his family at camp david. he will address a joint session of congress a week from tonight. the topic, healthcare. the goal, revive flagging public support and reassure anxious democrats. top democrats say the president will tie his push for reform to the passing of senator edward kennedy. white house officials also promised more precision from mr. obama, sharper lines about what is and what is not acceptable in a final package, but is a speech really what's been missing? some democrats aren't so sure. >> i think he is out of touch with what he needs to do.

i don't think he needs another speech. >> many democrats now consider it inevitable that the white house will abandon the so-called public option, the government-financed move into private insurance markets that m obama has long said was the best way to inject price cutting competition into the system. >> you can deliver insurance reform with or without the public option. it is a garnish that is on top. >> but house speaker nancy pelosi who will meet with mr. obama tuesday drew a bright line around the public option. >> we will have a public option in the bill. we can't pass a bill without a public option. >> support for the public option among centrist democrats like blanche lincoln of arkansas is waivering. lincoln has supported a public option but on tuesday said, quote, when they talk about a public option, lincoln said of her fellow congressional democrats, they're talking about another entitlement program and we can't afford that right now. it is democratic crosstalk about the public option that has cost the white house valuable time and energy. some democrats exek liberal

supporters to back off and expect a less ambitious deal. >> you're going to see a lot of movement in the progressive caucus toward a more pragmatic position, particularly in the next four to six weeks. >> at this late date, the only deal maker left is the president, until he defines victory, democrats are not likely to move. >> he needs to show presidential leadership in getting the democrats and reach cans in congress and their leadership into the white house to hammer out an agreement that works in the interests of the american people. >> senior administration officials tell fox that the president will not specifically state in that wednesday joint address to congress that he is not for the public option any longer. that will be a message delivered by implication only. senior white house aides are discouraging the house leadership from having that kind of vote saying if the house democrats vote in favor of a public option, it's more difficult to walk that back. david axelrod was just out

here on the north lawn and said the country is not tired of this debate and the country hasn't turned away from the president the more he has talked about healthcare reform. evidence from the polls notwithstanding. bret: major, the administration has targeted some republicans in this debate back and forth, and republican senator chuck grassley from iowa has been one of them. >> absolutely. today, one of the things the white house said has changed about this whole debate is that they said mike enzi, republican of wyoming, and charles grassley, republican from iowa had stepped away from negotiations even though they continue to talk among other senate finance committee democrats about a possible bipartisan solution. in response to that, the spokeswoman for senator grassley told fox the following "attacks by political operatives in the white house undermine bipartisan efforts an drive senators away from the table. the house and senate bills are frail ures. the finance committee works for an alternative and as a as a

result get widespread support. the so-called gang of six talks will continue on later on this week. bret: major garrett, live on the north lawn, thanks. healthcare is the topic in pennsylvania as two men who could both end up facing democratic senator arlen specter in his bid for a sixth term are teaming up for a town hall meeting. carl cameron joins us live from allentown, pennsylvania. good evening, carl. >> hi, bret. this is a different kind of healthcare town hall meeting, for sure. you have a conservative republican running for u.s. senate who is very much opposed to a government-run public health insurance option and a liberal democrat running for a u.s. senate seat who is very much an ardent supporter of all of that. they do agree on one thing. they are both against the incumbent democrat arlen specter who won't even be here today. first, the democrat who will, joe sestak. >> arlen became a democrat because he couldn't beat me.

after i announced my intention to get into the race switched his position on the public option. >> in his second congressional term, joe ses sestak said healthcare reform is what led him to seek public office. he faces an uphill fight because the democratic establishment are backing specter. he blames the slipping support on his party. >> this bill needs better provisions. it needs to show that the health curve is going down and down. >> our government option is among the worst features in this bill. >> former republican congressman pat toomey stepped down to run against specter. he welcomes sestak's debate on healthcare and voiced shared frustrations with specter's party switch and evolving positions. >> at least with joe sestak you have an honest committed liberal who will defend his principles and they're important to him, in contrast

to arlen specter who really systematically tries to be on both sides of every issue. >> in advance of their town hall debate, both toomey and sestak agreed to have a beer together afterward. as for specter, it's worth remembering that in 2004 he was endorsed and ardently supported by president george w. bush and now specter is endorsed and ardently supported by president obama. it is such a wide gulf that a lot of voters wonder what specter stands for eh except for his own re-election. bret: and now we have word that a former baseball star may be getting into politics? >> you are talking about the sake ant seat in the absence of ted kennedy. we reported last week that curt schilling, the red sox great pitcher, retired now, had been recruited. he has today said that he is interested. he says a lot of things have to be put in place after that happens. he hasn't ruled it in and hasn't uled it out. the operative thing being is that he hasn't ruled it out. bret: that will be fun. thanks.

worker productivity grew at fastest pace in six years during the second quarter. the labor department says the amount of output per hour of work rose at an an annual of 6.6% ate. stocks, however, were down. the dow lost 30 and the s&p was down 3 and the nasdaq gave back a little less than 2 points. oil avoided a third day of losses after the energy department reported a drop in cude and gasoline supplies. october crude gained 31 cents. gasoline is averaging $2.60 a gallon, down a half penny overnight. in the wake of new budget deficit p projections, one conservative group has launched a national ad campaigned focused not on the soaring costs of healthcare reform but what it calls unsustainable borrowing and spending by the federal government. correspondent james rosen has the story. >> schoolchildren pledging allegiance to american debt.

>> to the interest that the united states will have to pay. >> the arresting imagery is part of a multi-million dollar multi-media campaign called "defeat the debt.com" which features a rolling odometer, if you will, that puts our current debt debt at 11 trillion, over three times our estimate, all put out by the employment policies institute. we're trying to put it in context. we're trying to get people to understand who we owe this debt to, and the leavage that foreign governments and foreign banks have over this country when they start to accumulate that much debt. >> this year's $787 billion economic stimulus package, uncle sam's rescue of the automakers and new proposals to spend $1 trillion on healthcare may make it tempting to some to blame president obama for the sea of red ink but analysts who covered "the new york times" before joining the peterson institute for international

economics last year says everyone is to blame. >> it is a matter of arithmetic more than policies. taxes went up. war costs have driven unspending for the military, and both sides of the aisle have embraced increased spending in the military. >> having inherited a trillion dollar deficit, it will take a long time for us to close. >> president obama and his advisors have repeatedly pointed to the red ink on the books when they took over the white house, and indeed, a core element of the conservative kit teak against president bush was that non-defense discretionary spending increased under his watch by nearly 21%. but as a percentage of goss domestic product, the national debt for this year and in the years to come is projected to exceed anything in the bush administration's first or second terms. >> and they're in saying that they inherited a bic debt from president bush, but because of the economy, because of the spending programs, they're on

their way to expanding on that debt. >> rick burman, the head of the employment policies institute, runs a washington-based p.r. firm that has created numerous advocacy groups, mostly to advance the views of his corporate clients. these atdzs will be running on cable news stations and in newspapers, including those serving the hometowns of harry reid and the house speaker, nancy pelosi. bret: thanks, james. we will tow you which committee chairman has been told he can keep his job despite mounting ethics questions and are the brittish having it both ways when it comes to the release of the lockerbie bomber and what did the obama administration know? ( conversation ) garth, you're up. hold on, i'm at capitalone.com picking a photo... for my credit card. here's one from my prom. oh, what memories. how 'bout one from our golf outing? ( shouting ) i know, maybe one of my first-born son.

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bret: health officials said today that parts of the country where schools opened early after the summer break are seeing an uptick in h1n1 flu cases but as molly hennenberg reports, economic realities could mean your child's school is ill prepared. >> mel melissa cherry, a

school nurse for nine years says as kids head back to school and close contact with each other, she and other healthcare workers are rushing to stay one step ahead of the h1n1 flu virus. >> we're providing education to the staff, students and parents on what to hook out for and what to do if any of those symptoms seem to appear. >> in keeping on top of any flu, school r.n.'s are often the first line of defense. >> we do that by identifying the children who have the flu as opposed to just have seasonal allergies or a cold, making sure that they're isolated, and that the schools have a good system in place. >> but as many as 7 states have considered or have gone ahead and phased out school nurses because of tight budgets. >> now is not the time to be cutting school nurses. i think this new will spread quickly, and what we don't know is how deadly it will be. >> in 2007, the national association of school nurses found that there were 1,151

students per school nurse, but the centers for disease col and prevention recommends it should be 750 to 1. part of the concern this year is that the h1n1 flu, according to doctors, is hitting school-aged kids, young adults and pregnant women more than usual. >> for the most part, it looks as though it is relatively mild but has the potential to be quite serious. >> school districts such as palm beach or broward county in florida are cutting school nurses or cutting back on their hours or putting them on call or replaced them with health tech nig technicians who have less training. parents need to ask about the school nurse in their child's school, especially if that child has a chronic health problem. in gaithersburg, maryland, molly hennenberg, fox news. bret: the world's largest drugmaker is set to pay a $2 billion civil penalty over unlawful prescription drug promotion. pfizer is accused of illegally marketing four medicines for

uses not approved by the food and drug administration. the government will monitor the company's conduct for the next five years to rein in abuses. airline safety remains a top priority in congress following a series of well documented tragedies in the industry, but a familiar obstacle now stands in its way. correspondent shannon beam has the story. >> 50 people died on february 12, 2009, when continental connection flight 3407 went down in icy conditions just outside buffalo, new york 30 year old lauren bower was among them. her father scott found himself at the scene grieving with strangers who were also in deep pain, and wondering if it could have been prevented. >> i just asked myself, what is it that we could possibly do, or that i could possibly do to keep anyone else from going through this? >> now returning to capitol hill two weeks later, he called on every member of congress with any committee assignment that would link

them to aviation. he has made progress in getting major air safety reform passed in committees in the house and senate, but the sticking point has been the senate finance committee where ongoing healthcare reform negotiations have taken center stage. >> is there a concern that the healthcare issues might show down the process that we have? obviously, there is concern. >> senator chuck schumer is a member of the finance committee. >> the finance committee has had healthcare front and center, but we will do both this fall. we will do both healthcare and the f.a.a. reauthorization. we have to, because safety is more important than just about anything else. >> mauer says he has secure add meeting with aides from the senate finance committee and is hopeful it will only be a matter of time before reforms become reality, including better pilot training and oversight, along with airline access to potential pilot safety records. >> we'll get it done. we have to get it done. i'm pushing the chairman to

hold the markup right away. >> one of the key concerns of both the families of flight 3407 victims an lawmakers is this issue of pilot experience. the house bill under consideration includes new standards that would require six times the level of night hours now currently needed to obtain a commercial pilot's license. bret: shannon, thank you. one incoming first lady says she has had an out of this world experience and some say that the president should stay out of their child's classroom. the grape sign is next. bext if you had a

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bret: now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. the white house is facing opposition from several groups over next week's national address by president obama to school students with one critic calling him superintendent in chief. the department many of education has offered a series of classroom activities to coincide with the speech. students in grades k through 6 are encouraged to read books about past presidents and barack obama, but other suggestions include writing letters to themselves about

what they can do to help the president. for grades 7 through 12, proposed activities include asking questions like how will president obama inspire us? how will he challenge us? some critics are concerned the lesson plans amount to a form of indoctrination. the cato institute says, quote, it essentially tries to force kids to say the president and the presidency is inspiring and that's very problematic. an education policy director at a conservative think tank says, quote, i don't think it's appropriate for teachers to ask students to help promote the president's preferred school reforms and policies. house ways and means committee chairman charles rangel is safe, for now. democratic aides tell the hill newspaper house speaker nancy pelosi will let the new york democrat keep his chairmanship of the house ways and means committee despite last week's revelation that he failed to list about half of his total net worth on financial disclosure forms. that prompted calls from government watchdog groups to appoint a special counsel to

investigate. aides say pelosi is staying out of it because the house ethics committee is still conducting its own investigation into a number of possible angle sigh lations. speaker pelosi promised that investigation would be wrapped up nine months ago. one watchdog agency says of the time-consuming probe, quote, if they can't get their act together, then certainly the democratic lead cher lee lead leadership should step n >> japan's incoming prime minister has a lot to worry about -- japan's economy, north korea and japan's relationship with the u.s., but his wife seems to be a free spirit, discussing her inner thoughts about what she calls a close encounter with aliens. incoming first lady writes about the far-out experience in her book entitled "very strange things i have encountered." quote "while my body was asleep my soul rode on a triangular shaped ufo and went to venus.

it was very beautiful and it was really gene." well, the practice is not always allowed under federal law, a group of hospitals in one state is attempting to streamline its services by offering cash incentives to its doctors, but does the plan hurt the quality of care or create a more efficient system? we report. you decide. jamie colby has the story. >> 12 new jersey hospitals are testing a new program medicare believes in, called "gain sharing." >> the idea is that we can get costs out of the system. we can be more efficient, and at the same time improve quality. >> at overlook hospital in summit, new jersey, dr. lucas says 85 doctors have enthusiastically signed up to "gain sharing" since july 1st. physicians participating in the three-year pilot project get the same fees paid by medicare, plus $100 to $300 bonuses per patient if they cult costs without sacrificing quality of care.

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>> i don't know about any changes to the public option. as i have said from day one, the president has said the public option is the best way to keep the insurance companies honest, and if you have a better way to do this, put it on the table, so we're waiting for someone to put something on the table. >> one of the challenges we face is we have been locked out of the process from day one. the argument over public option/no public option is

between the blue dogs an progress guessives. bret: the argument over this government-run option, the public option is the focus of this debate. the president is said to be retooling the healthcare reform pitch and will deliver an address to the joint session of congress a week from tonight. again, the house speaker said today we can't pass a bill without a public option. she reiterated that. what about all of this? let's bring in our panel, steve hayes, senior writer for "the weekly standard", a.b. stoddard, associate editor of the hill and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. steve, the white house believes the president delivering another speech to retool this message is what they have to do. what about that? >> this is a reflective strategy when they are in trouble, attack republicans and give us more obama. it is totally unclear that that will solve the problem they're in. it strikes me a blatant misdiagnosis of the problem. barack obama doesn't have a message problem at this point. he has a substance problem. attacking republicans for the

problems he is having with democrats is, you know, it's throwing something over there and expecting people to go look and chase it. it won't work. people know too much about this already. the real difficulty i think he has is that he is now -- we're hearing these discussions that he is going to get more specific. more specific will necessarily mean he's going to have to give us details about how he intends to pay for this, and i think there he has two options. one, he can talk about more savings, i think savings that we have seen, could be imaginary, at least the congressional budget office and others don't see, or he is going to have to talk about taxes. in one case, if he talks about savings, people won't believe him and if he talks about taxes, it won't be popular. bret: a.b. the house speaker said again "we will have a public option in this bill. we can't pass it without a public option." now everyone at the white house, at least privately is saying that the president will come out and say we are not going to have a public option.

>> right, and she has a few days to accept. this this doesn't mean that the house won't go ahead and do something like that, but i think the decision is instead of -- the white house feels it's better for the president to come out and say goodbye to the public option right away up front than to have a house passed bill with a public option that goes between the conference between the two chambers and gets dropped. this speech on wednesday of next week is not going to be so effective, i believe, with the public, not going to convince steven and people who have not understood what he has been behind, what his healthcare principles are. it is really an opportunity to answer critics that he hasn't been specific. the real work will be done off camera behind closed doors with the members of his party, a divided party, and he will say i have now laid out four specific things. you get behind me, or we're all going to fall in the midterm elections. >> charles. >> i think this speech has to be dramatic.

it has to be a reset. it has to be a restaging of this debate because he has lost act one. it has got to be an opening curtain on act two, and it can't just be a a repetition of his old position. i think the way they are headed is to try to say have the president do a nod to the discontent and the anxiety that was jenated over the summerrer, but i think if they are smart and millie cynical, which i think -- if they are smart and politically cynical, which i think they are, i think what they will do is say that the reason the p president could not be specific is because while negotiations were going on with republicans, specifically the gang of six in the senate, he wanted to not preclude any possible agreements or compromises, but now that the republicans is walked away, and i suspect he will attack senators grassley and enzi specifically and say, well, now that the republicans are going to be entirely

obstructionists, well, now i'm able to be specific, and now i will be specific, and now this summer of discontent in which i had to be either evasive or ambiguous or at least open is at least over. the republicans have forced my hand and now i'm going to say x, q and z. he has to make a pronouncement on the public option and make a critical strategic decision. is this about cutting costs, which will destroy him in popular opinion, or does he ignore that now and make it all about expansion of coverage and in guaranteeing of coverage. bret: if he does what you say he will do, it seems like abandoning the negotiations completely would lend itself more to, ok, let's try to push through a public option. >> he might. i'm not sure which way he will go. all the indications are that they e. he will drop a public option, but not because of the republicans, because of the blue dogs. in the end, mara once said, this's no liberal in the house that is going to lose his seat

if there is not a public option. there are a lot of moderates in the house who will lose their seat if there is a public option. case closed. bret: a.b. we saw how the left was enraged when this whole debate came out in the first place, whether it was going to be included or not. now, when the president delivers this speech and if, in fact, he does drop it, then what happens? >> labor is threatening mutiny. he still has ip credible heat from the left on this issue, and he will, after he lays down the law but i have a feeling that he is working with the senatite now on what the members of senate caucus, a much more moderate caucus, can stomach. is it a $700 billion bill? is it a $900 bill? what are the subsidies for new coverage? they are going to massage some kind of message for him to lay down. ultimately the house progressive wing will get less out of this.

i would say quickly on the republicans, i think it is the job of the spokesman at the white house to beat up on senator enzi. i don't think barack obama is going to get up and beat up on those guys. i think they want them at the table. the talks proceed this week. senator enzi's staff invited me to meet with them tomorrow and they said they're still at the table. i think the white house will try to string that along a little longer. >> you aren't cynical enough, i'm afraid. >> that's a compliment. >> i think he is calling the last bluff if he opts to go without the public option and they're not going to ditch him. that's not going to happen. bret: when we return, the panel sorts out about who

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coverup, no double dealing, no deal in oil, no attempt to instruct scottish ministers no, private assurances by me to muammar qaddafi. we were free of clout with the libyans an everyone else. this was a decision from the scottish government. bret: brittish prime minister gordon bound very defensive in exdefense of the release of the man released in the bombing of pan am flight 103. what about this? who knew what when and what about our administration? we're back with the panel. charles. >> as they would say in the brittish parliament. rubbish. and not believable. it is quite obvious that all discussions about this terrorist hovering over it and behind it and all around it was considerations of brittish relations with libya, which means brittish financial interests are in libya, which means oil. we even have a letter from jack straw, who at the time was the justice minister,

2008, writing to the first minister of scotland emphasizing how important relations between the u.k. and libya are to britain and to the entire world. now, why are justice ministers talking about international relations unless the implication is obvious in considering the release of this guy. keep in mind that relations between us and muammar qaddafi and libya are important financially. now, what i want to say and even though it is scandalous, we have to remember that the brittish in iraq and afghanistan have been stalwart allies, and extremely supportive and sacrificial. what is happening here happens all among the europeans is when it comes with dealing with specific acts of terror, they go soft, often in return for financial concessions in dealings with iran, with libya, and with a lot of others, so there's nothing new here except that in the

lockerbie case it was so obvious, public and humiliating. >> david cameron is calling for an inquiry and saying this is fishy. if any more evidence turns up that the scottish officials were pressured by bound, we -- by brown, we already have a foreign foreign minister relaying to libyan officials that foreign officials didn't want to he see him die in prison. if anything more comes up, he's finished. i have no idea why he risked his alliance to the united states and his electoral prospects. brown is terribly unpopular. why he got himself involved in this is absolutely bizarre. as cameron said, if you are of the mind that this case wasn't decided correctly, you build a new case with fresh evidence. you don't give someone early release who is convicted of killing hundreds of people.

bret: conservative party leader david cameron about that investigation. steve, what about what our administration did or didn't do and what the obama administration knew. there is still questions about this conference call that eric holder was on and who said what. i mean, we don't have a lot of answers here. >> no, a lot of questions still unanswered from the most transparent administration in history. i think they need to fill in those gaps. it is something that people need to know. i think if you take a step back and look at the entirety of the situation, it is, i think, cheer that if barack obama had brought to bear the entire weight of the white house, things could have turned out differently. now, i'm not blaming the obama white house for his release. i think there were a number of steps at which he could have intervened. we could have done something positive to at least made this more difficult or expressed our opinion. apparently hillary clinton and others said under no uncertain terms we do not want him released but i would like to know what else they said. i mean, were there veiled threats? what specifics did we give

them that would have said this could jeopardize or partially jeopardize the relationship that we have? it is an outrage. he killed nearly 300 americans. bret: charles, muammar qaddafi is set to arrive in new york for a united nations meeting later this month. susan rice, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations said today that how he chooses to comport himself when he attends the general assembly in new york has the potential either to further aggravate those feelings and emotions or not >> that is pathetic. that is acting a terrorist to act nicely while in new york so you don't embarrass us. look, the real scandal here is that the guy whos was convicted and released was not acting alone. it is all the same thing. this one guy didn't just decide he would destroy a

usair plane and kill 300 people. muammar qaddafi was obviously involved or at least his secret services who provided assistance and support, so all along it has been a charade and a disgays, but that's how we deal with individual acts of terror. we act weakly because there are no good alternatives. i don't want to exonerate them but there is nothing new here. it just looks real bad on television. bret: that's it for the panel. stay tuned for and in depth report on what google is doing to protect your privacy. . t if you had a hoveround power chair? the statue of liberty? the grand canyon? it's all possible with a hoveround. tom: hi i'm tom kruse, inventor and founder of hoveround. when we say you're free to see the world, we mean it. call today and get a free hoveround information kit that includes a video and full color brochure. dennis celorie: "it's by far the best chair i've ever owned."

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village and it is what you would expect from google. if you want to keep your information private, a move to the 22-acre opt out a village and do not speak to anyone from the outside world. >> press the button and a van will come and pick you up. your home address will no longer appear on google local pages. after two days in the back of the van, you are there. >> they are monitored and tracked by google. >> residents will be expected to know how to grow food and buried corpses by hand if they opt out. google has gone the extra mile to ensure that users who make this choice are given privacy in their new home, a physical data security you wall -- security wall. bret: